The Great Collection of The Lives of the Saints, Volume III: November

Translated from the Slavonic edition published by the Christian Printshop of the Transfiguration Almshouse in Moscow in the year 1914 from the original compiled by Saint Demetrius of Rostov and published in KievFirst English Edition Translated by Father Thomas Marretta

“In these volumes of the present collection we offer to English-speaking Orthodox Christians the first set in any modern Western language of full-length accounts of the struggles and martyrdoms of the most eminent saints to cover the entire course of the year. Our devout forebears in the faith had as their daily reading not newspapers and novels but the Holy Gospels, the Psalter, the Book of Hours, and the Lives of the saints. Nourished constantly by these, their souls were filled with ineffable delight and spiritual yearning, and they lived not for this fallen world but in expectation of the eternal kingdom. It is our hope that these volumes will likewise ever be in the hands of the Christians of our time.”—“To the Pious Reader”

CONTENTS

To the Pious ReaderThe Teachers, Historians, and Chroniclers from whose works this book was compiled November 1 The Holy Unmercenaries and Wonder-workers Cosmas and Damian The Holy Martyr Hermeningilda, Prince of the GothsNovember 2 The Holy Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Anempodistus, Elpidephorus, and AphthoniusNovember 3 The Holy Martyrs Acepsimas the Bishop, Joseph the Presbyter, and Aethalas the DeaconNovember 4 Our Holy Father Joannicius the Great The Holy Martyrs Nicander, Bishop of Myra and Hermas the PresbyterNovember 5 The Holy Martyrs Galacteon and Episteme Saint Jonah, Archbishop of NovgorodNovember 6 Saint Paul the Confessor, Patriarch of Constantinople Our Holy Father Barlaam of KhutynNovember 7 The Holy Martyr Hieron and His CompanionsNovember 8 The Synaxis of the Holy Archangel Michael and the Other Bodiless PowersNovember 9 The Holy Martyrs Onesiphorus and Porphyrius Our Holy Mother Matrona Our Holy Mother Theoctista of LesbosNovember 10 The Holy Apostles Olympas, Herodion, Sosipater, Erastus, Quartus, and Tertius The Holy Martyr OrestesNovember 11 The Holy Great Martyr Menas The Holy Martyrs Victor and Stephanida The Holy Martyr Vincent the Deacon Our Holy Father Theodore the StuditeNovember 12 Saint John the Merciful, Patriarch of Alexandria Our Holy Father Nilus the FasterNovember 13 Saint John Chrysostom, Patriarch of ConstantinopleNovember 14 The Holy Apostle Philip Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of ThessalonicaNovember 15 The Holy Martyrs Gurias, Samonas, and Abibus, the ConfessorsNovember 16 The Holy Apostle and Evangelist MatthewNovember 17 Saint Gregory the Wonder-worker, Bishop of Neo-Caesarea Our Holy Father Nicon of RadonezhNovember 18 The Holy Martyr Plato The Holy Martyrs Romanus and BarulasNovember 19 The Holy Prophet Obadiah The Holy Martyr Barlaam the Elder A Homily on Barlaam, written by St. Basil A Homily on Barlaam, written by St. John Chrysostom Our Holy Fathers Barlaam and Joasaph of India Our Holy Father Barlaam of the Kiev CavesNovember 20 Our Holy Father Gregory the Decapolite Saint Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople The Holy Martyrs Eustace, Thespesius, and AnatoliusNovember 21 THE ENTRANCE INTO THE TEMPLE OF OUR MOST PURE LADY, THE THEOTOKOSNovember 22 The Holy Apostles Philemon and Archippus and the Martyr Apphia The Holy Martyr Cecilia and the Martyrs Valerian, Tiburtius, and MaximusNovember 23 Saint Amphilochius, Bishop oyf Iconium Saint Gregory, Bishop of AgrigentumNovember 24 The Holy Great Martyr Catherine The Holy Great Martyr MercuriusNovember 25 The Holy Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome The Holy Hieromartyr Peter, Archbishop of AlexandriaNovember 26 Our Holy Father Alypius the StyliteNovember 27 The Holy Martyr James the PersianNovember 28 The Holy Martyr Stephen the NewNovember 29 The Holy Martyr Paramon Our Holy Father Acacius of SinaiNovember 30 The Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called A Homily on the Holy Apostle Andrew, written by Saint John ChrysostomTranslator’s NoteIndex of the Saints and Feasts of November

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